The Musketeers series 2 to bring on the sex and violence for a post-watershed audience

The second series of The Musketeers is set to be racier than the first (Picture: BBC)

Writer Adrian Hodges will be making the show racier to fit its 9pm time slot.

Hodges explained that he was told by the BBC that the first series would be broadcast at 8pm, so he wrote the show to fit the pre-watershed time. However, the show eventually ended up going out at 9pm with its tame content.

For the second series, Hodgson revealed that he will be throwing in more sex and violence to suit a later audience.

‘We wouldn’t have done the first series in that way, had we been doing the whole thing as a 9pm show’ he told Daily Star.

‘We would have pushed the tone much further in terms of sexuality and violence.

‘So for this second series, I knew we were going out at 9pm and so we have pushed it harder for this audience.’

The Musketeers will have to deal with Hustle star Marc Warren’s baddie (Picture: BBC)

While some Tumblr fans might be hoping for a bit of inter-Musketeer action, chances are there’ll just be a whole lot of bodice ripping going on.

Marc Warren joins the drama as this series’ villain, Comte De Rochefort.

All the Musketeers from series one – Luke Pasqualino, Howard Charles, Santiago Cabrera and Tom Burke – have all been confirmed to reprise their roles as D’Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis and Athos respectively.